Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

This new edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner's mastery of the form.

Reviews

`A perfect introduction for first-timers who have not yet experienced the pleasures of Garner's writing.' * Sydney Morning Herald * `Garner's stories share characteristics of the postcard: they flash before us carefully recorded images that remind us of harsher realities not pictured. And like postcards they are economically written, a bit of conversation is transcribed, a memory recalled, an event noted, scenes pass as if viewed from a train-momentarily, distinct and tantalising in their beauty.' * New York Times * `Garner is a natural storyteller.' * James Wood, New Yorker *

Author description

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction. Garner won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction for Postcards from Surfers, and the Victorian and Queensland Premiers' Awards, as well as the Barbara Jefferis Award, for her novel The Spare Room. Everywhere I Look won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Non Fiction.

Stock Information

General Fields

ISBN : 9781925603095

Publisher : Text Publishing Co

Imprint : The Text Publishing Company

Publication date : September 2017

Dimensions : 234mm X 153mm

Availability date : November 2017

Product Type : books

Special Fields

Pages : 208

Author : Helen Garner

Bind : Hardback

Language : English

"Please please, read to your children. Read in a lively way. Read with love not duty"